DIMAPUR, MAY 28 (MExN): The Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland has submitted a petition to the Nagaland State Chief Minister appealing for implementation of the Nagaland Lokayukta Bill and its introduction during the monsoon session of the NLA 2017.
The ACAUT, in a press note today informed that its consultative member, Niketu Iralu met the CM upon the latter’s invitation on May 26th at his office and submitted the petition for implementation of the Lokayukta Bill.
The ACAUT said that the time period of the standing committee is only 6 months, extendable by 6 months at a time and since its term had expired, the Chief Minister revived it and had asked the standing committee to submit its report within 6 months. Since the committee report is ready, the ACAUT saw no reason why it cannot be tabled in the month of July this year.
In the petition, the ACAUT said to the CM: “That a statesman of your stature has taken the reins of the state is an assurance to the beleaguered people groaning under the weight of corruption and mis-governance that good leadership will prevail, and therefore the ACAUT Nagaland requests that, as time now permits, you institute the Lokayukta in the State of Nagaland.”
It reminded that ACAUT has been insisting on such an anti-corruption ombudsman since 2014, and during the tenure of the former CM, a Standing Committee on Lokayukta headed by Er. Levi Rengma, Parliamentary Secretary, was formed in 2015, and yet the Government of the Day did not deem it fit to pass the anti-corruption bill in the state assembly despite the numerous available opportunities.
The introduction of this bill will be historic and transformative, in tune with our Christian ethos, it affirmed. It further appealed to the CM’s “sense of consciousness to help in building institutional mechanisms whereby the Naga nation is eventually structured upon merit, hard work and dedication, as advocated by our ancestors and the Lokayukta is but means to such an end.”
“It is on Behalf of the Naga people that our demand has been placed before you, and the ACAUT Nagaland along with the rest of the Nagas anticipate that this very crucial piece of legislation will be passed during the Monsoon Session of the State Legislative Assembly, 2017,” it hoped.
